ABSTRACT
Representations of suburbia in British cinema occur with surprising infrequency. Paul Oliver, the architectural historian who is suburbia's most partisan champion, sees this as a deliberate cultural slight. British cinema, he insists, could
have shown something of Dunroamin' s life and people, who supported the film industry by paying for a substantial proportion of the thirty million seats every week. Instead, there is scarcely a glimpse
This was eagerly lapped up by the film's original audiences. C. A. Lejeune, film critic of The Observer, wrote that:
N one of the characters in this film is entirely imaginary and some resemblance to people you know is quite unavoidable.
